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	HIMAL SOUTH ASIAN \| June 2003 \| Perspective \| Hating Romila Thapar
		The library announced that it was appointing Professor Thapar as the first holder of the Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South, and that she would spend 10 months at the John W Kluge Centre in Washington DC pursuing “historical consciousness in early India”.
		While 72-year-old Thapar’s appointment was greeted with applause by serious students of history, little did anyone realise that acolytes of the Hindutva brand of politics, primarily those in the Indian diaspora, would unleash a vitriolic campaign against her built on name-calling and the disparaging of her professional qualifications.
		Thapar’s documentation of early Indian life is at odds with the Hindutva preference, grounded in a regressive Hindu orthodoxy, of seeing India as a purely Hindu civilisation, the political implications of which for contemporary India being obvious.
	www.himalmag.com /2003/june/analysis_2.htm (1841 words)

	Romila Thapar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Romila Thapar (born 1931) is a Marxist Indian historian whose principal area of study is Ancient India.
		Thapar's major works are Asoka and the Decline of the Maurya, Ancient Indian Social History: Some Interpretations, Recent Perspectives of Early Indian History (editor), A History of India Volume One, and Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300.
		Her scholarly approach tends to be critical of social elites, and portrays the origins of Hinduism as an evolving interplay between social forces.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Romila_Thapar (599 words)

	Muslim Rule, Hindu Diaspora and India?
		Romila Thapar has gone to extremes when she says Muslims were not foreign to India and there was no antagonism between the Hindus and the Muslims till the British wrote Indian history books calling the Muslims aliens.
		Thapar would like her readers to believe that there was no oppression of the Hindus by the Muslim rulers or any animosity between the two.
		Romila Thapar seems to be somewhat disturbed by the role being played by the Hindu Diaspora in the debate now going on about Indian history.
	www.kashmirherald.com /featuredarticle/muslimrule-prn.html (1386 words)

	4. Harsha of Kashmir, a Hindu iconoclast?
		This example is given by JNU emeritus professor of ancient history, Romila Thapar, in a book and again in a letter written in reply to a query on Arun Shourie’s revelations on the financial malversations and scholarly manipulations by a group of secularist historians including herself.
		Though Romila Thapar does mention Ghaznavi’s employee Alberuni, she conceals that Alberuni, who had widely travelled in India and was as contemporary to Ghaznavi as can be, has explicitly confirmed Ghaznavi’s general policy of Islamic iconoclasm and specifically his destruction of the Somnath temple.
		Thapar also demonstrates her very weak grip on religious issues with her little excursus on the occasional Muslim interpretation (rendered more plausible by the imprecision of the Arabic script in transcribing Indian words) of Somanâtha as “Somanât”, and hence of the temple as a place where the Arabian Goddess Manât was worshipped.
	koenraadelst.voiceofdharma.com /books/acat/ch4.htm (4734 words)

	Questionable Perceptions of Hindu Traditions: Leftist Scholarship in India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Thapar is responsible for a number of the textbooks in India on the history of the country, which not surprisingly are rather negative about the majority religion of the land.
		Thapar has offered us another angle of her views in her recent release Cultural Transaction in Early India, which is typical of her approach.
		Thapar's recent historical accounts are clearly meant as attacks on the Hindu revivalist movement in India, which the communists have always regarded as their main enemy.
	www.hindunet.org /alt_hindu/1994/msg00646.html (1513 words)

	In Defence of the Indian Historian Romila Thapar's appointment to the Klude Chair at the Library of Congress.
		Romila Thapar like many of her colleagues from Indian intelligentsia has written and spoken against the systematic onslaught on the secular foundations of the educational systemin India by the forces of the Hindu right.
		Romila Thapar's reputation does not rest on a single work, but on the capacity to have adapted herself decade after decade to changing trends and tendencies, and to have continued nevertheless to produce work of a consistent quality.
		Romila Thapar on the other hand has moved from her early work on the Mauryas, to a general consideration of early state-formation that is much influenced by the marriage of Marxism and structuralism, to reflections on the epics, historiography and a host of other subjects.
	www.sacw.net /Alerts/IDRT300403.html (3861 words)

	'McCarthy, where are you?'
		THAPAR is probably the best-known, and most widely read, living historian of ancient India, who has taught at numerous universities, including Oxford, Paris, Cornell, London, besides Jawaharlal Nehru University.
		If the petitioners had only bothered to read Thapar they would have known that one of her main, indeed recurring, themes is her critique of "Orientalist" Eurocentric interpretations, which hold that ancient India lacked a sense of history and that pre-colonial Indian society was "static".
		It is ludicrous to say that Thapar is an "antagonist" of Indian "civilisation", as distinct from being antagonistic to those who paint this richly plural entity as purely Hindu, ignoring its Jain, Buddhist, Christian, animist and agnostic traditions, and its secular, scientific and materialistic currents.
	www.hinduonnet.com /fline/fl2010/stories/20030523004911500.htm (1650 words)

	Romila Thapar's Appointment to Library of Congress opposed by Hindutwa
		A petition is circulating on the Internet against the appointment of Professor Romila Thapar as First Holder of the Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South at the Library of Congress.
		Thapar will spend ten months at the John W Kluge Center pursuing 'Historical Consciousness in Early India' as her area of research.
		Thapar, emeritus professor of Ancient Indian History at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, who has served as visiting professor at Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania, is an authority on Indian history.
	www.countercurrents.org /comm-thapar29403.htm (460 words)

	EKTA
		Professor Romila Thapar examines both the historical tradition and the contemporary scene in the India of the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP).
		In 1983 Professor Thapar was elected General President of the Indian History Congress and in 1999 a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.
		Professor Thapar's lecture was held on November 6, 2002 at the University of California at Berkeley’s Sibley Auditorium and sponsored by the Center for South Asia Studies and the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies
	www.ektaonline.org /calendar/ucb/thapar.htm (252 words)

	IMC India - In Defence of Romila Thapar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Thapar and some of her colleagues in India are well known to have been thrust from the top by Left and Left-of-Center governments, her appointment to a prestigious chair in the United States is bound to provoke some amusement, if not outright derision.
		Thapar has portrayed Hindus in particular and India in general in a negative light, it is feared that her presence in the US will only serve to strengthen the negative prejudices against India, Indians and Hinduism in the minds of the general American public.
		Thapar is a founding member) in New Delhi and other similar institutions patronized by her and her colleagues (who have been permanent fixtures in their governing committees) are able to get into institutions in the West, from where they are able to invite their erstwhile mentors.
	india.indymedia.org /en/2003/05/4747.shtml (5504 words)

	A Tribute to Hinduism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Thapar is neither the most important, nor the most prominent figure of Marxist circles, but she has been very much in the news lately and represents a wider phenomenon, and her name has been picked here for no other reason.
		Thapar's historical criticisms of Hinduism are quite negative, and it is often easier to get more sympathetic accounts of Hinduism from professors in the West, particularly those who have practiced some professors in the West, particularly those who have particularly those who have practiced some Hindu-based yogic or meditational teachings.
		Thapar does not parade her Marxism, particularly in recent years, and her criticism of Hinduism, though harsh, is presented in an indirect scholarly style, which makes it less obvious.
	www.atributetohinduism.com /articles_hinduism/101.htm (1740 words)

	Romila Thapar's appointment to US library opposed
		A petition is circulating on the Internet against the appointment of Professor Romila Thapar as First Holder of the Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South at the Library of Congress.
		Thapar will spend ten months at the John W Kluge Center pursuing 'Historical Consciousness in Early India' as her area of research.
		Thapar, emeritus professor of Ancient Indian History at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, who has served as visiting professor at Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania, is an authority on Indian history.
	www.rediff.com /us/2003/apr/25us1.htm (568 words)

	The Official Shansi Website
		Professor Romila Thapar is the author of many seminal works on the historyof ancient India.
		She is an Honorary Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and SOAS, University of London and has honorary doctorates from such institutions as The University of Chicago, the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientale, Paris, University of Oxford and the University of Calcutta.
		Romila Thapar is at the forefront of the struggle of the Indian intelligentsia against the systematic onslaught on the secular foundations of the educational system by the ruling parties led by Hindutva forces in India.
	www.oberlin.edu /shansi/News/romila_thapar.html (460 words)

	SACW #2 \| 15 March 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		What one of India's foremost historians Romila Thapar does in this erudite work is to demolish comprehensively a whole set of myths fostered by Muslim, Hindu and British writers on the issue.
		Romila Thapar renders high service in proving to the hilt that no trauma ensured from the raid.
		Romila Thapar recalls that "[Alexander] Dow published his History of Hindostan in 1767-72 in which he retold the account as given by Ferishta.
	bridget.jatol.com /pipermail/sacw_insaf.net/2004/001893.html (5361 words)

	IMC India - Indian History and Romila Thapar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Thapar’s own ideological and political slant becomes obvious when one notices how she fails to mention that the Buddhists and Jains themselves composed their texts in Sanskrit in later times, even when she could have done so later in Chapter VI.
		Romila Thapar ‘revised’ the textbook assigned to her in 1987 with only a few minor, primarily cosmetic[44] changes to the 1966 edition.
		The fact that Romila Thapar has failed to revise textbooks authored by her in a timely fashion,[46] and has continued to brainwash generations of impressionable school students with slanted versions of history is a serious dereliction of duty.
	india.indymedia.org /en/2003/01/2713.shtml (9253 words)

	Blogger: Email Post to a Friend
		Romila Thapar is one of India's most important historians.
		And here is an article by Thapar herself on the question of the "Aryan" Indian past, from Frontline magazine.
		Thapar uses hard, empirical evidence -- traces of the written language from the Indus river cities, as well as archeological fragments -- to show that those cities were definitely not "Aryan."
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=6629664&postID=108135986025037991 (746 words)

	History revisited and inverted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Thapar however ignores the pertinent fact that the alleged attacks by Hindu kings on images and temples did not rest upon any shastric commandment.
		Thapar views the construction and destruction of Somanatha as a "counterposed legitimation," whereby re-consecration gave legitimacy to Hindu kings and destruction validated the Turkish Sultans.
		Thapar's shoddy insistence that the gesture was dictated by the greed of Hindu traders for a share of the Arab trade is typical Marxist drivel.
	www.hvk.org /articles/0404/10.html (1555 words)

	Amazon.com: Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas: Books: Romila Thapar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Thapar believes that Asoka's rise to power was actually due to movements within the Mauryan society during that period instead of Asoka's individual persona.
		Thapar's arguments are very convincing and it is obvious that she has not only considerable knowledge of Indian history, but also has done extensive research on Asoka and the Mauryan Empire.
		Thapar mentions many Indian concepts, words, and ancient kingdoms and assumes that the reader understands what they are without explanation.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195639324?v=glance (1225 words)

	Somanatha
		In her new book, Romila Thapar, the doyenne of Indian historians, reconstructs what took place by studying other sources, including local Sanskrit inscriptions, biographies of kings and merchants of the period, court epics and popular narratives that have survived.
		Romila Thapar is Emeritus Professor in History at the Jawaharlal Nehru University.
		She has served as visiting professor at Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania and is currently the Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South at the Library of Congress.
	www.versobooks.com /books/tuvwxyz/tuv-titles/thapar_somanatha.shtml (419 words)

	Sulekha News : Indian News, World News, Latest news from around the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Romila Thapar actually cheated in the exams to pass her degree.
		ROMILA THAPAR Romila Thapar studied for seven years in London, on the cusp of Indian Independence, and returned to India with her PhD,..
		Romila's story is a wonderful insight into how exectly the higher echelons of adademia are corrupted by gutter class people who have matching ideological profile with their godfathers/godmothers.
	www.sulekha.com /news/newsitem.aspx?cid=421306 (589 words)

	Early India From the Origins to AD 1300 Paperback by Romila Thapar ISBN 0520242254
		Early India represents a complete rewriting by Romila Thapar of her classic work, A History of India (the first volume in the Penguin History of India series), thirty-five years after it was first published.
		Thapar has incorporated the vast changes in scholarly understanding and interpretation of Indian history that have occurred during her lifetime to revise the book for a new generation of readers.
		Professor Thapar's book is required reading for those interested in a reliable and academically sound account of the history of early India.
	www.cheapesttextbooks.com /reviews/0520242254.html (863 words)

	Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300 (Romila Thapar)
		The result is dense and sometimes dry, but never dull, as Thapar has a knack for integrating details into the broader picture.
		Thapar keeps her speculation restrained but tries to tease out, from the often limited evidence, broad aspects of political systems, structures of ordinary life, and patterns of social change.
		At the same time she tries to do justice to the diversity of India, both regional and temporal, and to avoid unwarranted generalisations.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Early_India.html (347 words)

	Romila rejects Padma award- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The government has realised this in the case of eminent historian Romila Thapar, who has refused to accept the Padma Bhushan.
		In a letter to President Kalam on Wednesday, Thapar said she was "astonished to see my name in the list of awardees because three months ago when I was contacted by the HRD ministry and asked if I would accept an award, I made my position very clear and explained my reason for declining it."
		It is a mystery why, despite her refusal, the HRD ministry forwarded Thapar's name to the home ministry, which administers these awards.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/1003072.cms (221 words)

	It is Official - Romila Thapar Defends Aryan Invasion Theory!
		It is a forgone conclusion then that Thapar lent her weighty name to argue for retention of the wording of these Californian textbooks unaltered.
		And yet, Michael Witzel, Romila Thapar and other prejudiced ‘scholars’ launched a Goebbelsian blitzkrieg, labeling these California residents, apolitical parents who pay their taxes regularly and contribute to the US society immensely, as dangerous Hindu fundamentalists linked to murderers and what not.
		In any case, it is vastly superior to the faulty and vintage NCERT textbook of Romila Thapar for grades VI in Central Board affiliated schools in India that I had the bad luck of study as a student.
	www.indiacause.com /columns/OL_051220.htm (4143 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.03.26
		Romila Thapar's chapter on "The Role of the Army in the Exercise of Power in Early India" is one of the most explicitly theoretical of the essays: "There is a link therefore between the formation of an evolved state and the organization of its army" (p.
		Thapar thus connects the development of a professional army with an increase in social complexity and stratification.
		Thapar also makes a number of miscellaneous points about Indian armies and their relation to castes and governments, based on a range of Indian sources -- and, surprisingly often, Greek texts about Alexander's campaigns in India.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2004/2004-03-26.html (3035 words)

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